CVE-2016-4711 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

CCrypt in corecrypto in CommonCrypto in Apple iOS before 10 and OS X before 10.12 allows attackers to discover cleartext information by leveraging a function call that specifies the same buffer for input and output.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apple	Iphone Os Mac Os X

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x::::::::

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00008.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93056
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036858
https://support.apple.com/HT207143
https://support.apple.com/HT207170

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published: 2016-09-25T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:39:26.115Z

Reserved: 2016-05-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-4711

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-09-25T10:59:18.610

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-4711

Redhat

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